Many More Parts Than M!: Compendium
Many More Parts than M!: Reimagining Disability, Access and Inclusion beyond Compliance is a prototype compendium by The DisOrdinary Architecture Project exploring how to engage with built environment accessibility in ways that take us beyond conventional checklists, templates, design guidance and legal compliance.
The publication is a rich catalogue of alternative concepts, stories, artistic work and architectural details that can creatively and critically inform design thinking and practice and builds on the creativity and criticality of diverse disabled artists, designers, architects, scholars and activists. Rather than relying on either conventional disability categories (blind, wheelchair-user, deaf) or standard accessibility terms (wayfinding, tactile paving, platform lifts), it is organised around an alphabet of key concepts that may be new to many, but which we hope will enliven debate and help to improve the quality of design ideas around access and inclusion.
The project was funded by Arts Council England (ACE) and built on from our competition-winning project for a ‘co-creating equity in the public realm’ design competition called ‘Seats at the Table’. By creating additional activities, artworks and a publication out of lessons learnt from the LFA project, the compedium enables disabled artists and architects to aim to influence built environment and cultural sector professionals beyond the Festival itself. Many More Parts than M! is mainly aimed at built environment and cultural sector students, educators and professionals. It is intended for browsing and for following up on some of the ideas, artists and projects included.
Download the PDF for Many More Parts than M! here.
Or explore the publication using issuu below:
Alternative versions and media content
In addition to the printed version of the compendium, we created a series of alternative online versions. You can find each of the alternative versions below.
Compendium for screen-readers
The downloadable screen-reader version is split into three sections, each complete with Alt Text. Below you can click on each link to access three sections.
Section 1:
Page 1 - 44. Contents: 1. Introduction, 2. Access ecologies, 3. Access fails, 4. Access Information, 5. Beauty, 6. Beyond the Visual, 7. Care and 8. Repair and Clinical settings.
Download section 1 of the compendium here.
Section 2:
Page 45 - 91. Contents: 9. Time, 10. Deaf Space, 11. Disability Etiquette, 12. Disability Justice, 13. Imperfect, 14. Misfitting and 15. Mobility.
Download section 2 of the compendium here.
Section 3:
Page 92 - 146. Contents: 16. Nightlife, 17. Orientation/Dis, 18. Practicing Differently, 19. Seats at the Table, 20. Toilets, 21. Waste(d), 22. Ways of Being, 23. Acknowledgements, 24. Definition of Ableism.
Download section 3 of the compendium here.
Additional video resources
As part of the Many More Parts than M! project we also asked some of our many contributors to talk about what they are doing. These nine videos can be accessed via QR codes in the hard copy or PDF version, and are also linked below. All videos have English Captions available.
